I'm weary of the battle. But a tired fighter can still be a fighter.

I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to get something down on paper.

You seldom get a censorship attempt from a 14-year-old boy. It's the adults who get upset.

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

When I write, I never think of segments as chapters; I think of them as scenes. I always visualize them in my mind. Then I try to get the scene down on paper as closely as I can. That's the one thing that readers don't see - what you have in your mind. The reader can only see what you get on the page.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

I am frightened by today's world, terrified by it. I think that comes out in the books. I'm afraid of big things. Some of these schools have three thousand kids, and even the size of the schools frightens me. Big government frightens me; so does big defense.